Amazon.com Bringing HP Indigo Presses In-house to Print Books on Demand

PALO ALTO, CA—Dec. 4, 2006—HP announced that Amazon.com has elected to install multiple HP Indigo press 5000 machines to provide digital color printing for the online retailers’ expanding books-on-demand business. These color presses reportedly will operate in conjunction with existing black-and-white digital printing capabilities at several Amazon fulfillment centers. They are to be used for one-off to short-run color book production and printing of color covers for black-and-white book blocks.